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Yeah, http://hackerslide.com/ is mine. This new one has a more precise interface with the keyboard shortcuts though mine continues to run OK two years on with no changes. Here's the thread from when it launched which also topped HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794614 and I wrote a post about the reason for putting it together and how it works: http://peterc.org/blog/2010/334-hacker-slide-anatomy-of-a-4-...

Perhaps one minor bonus to HackerSlide for now is anyone can take the data collected. The URLs for the JSON archives are formatted like: http://hackerslide.com/data/2012-11-01-23.json (YYYY-MM-DD-HH) although even better long term are the once a day versions, e.g.: http://hackerslide.com/data/2012-11-01.json

I've learnt two things from this project in particular. First, that most similar projects don't seem to stick around very long (the Reddit one it was based on disappeared after a few months as have several others - http://hckrnews.com/ is an exception I can recall). Second, these tools seem to be popular at first but then rarely used over time. Luckily I still find it useful to catch up after vacations, etc ;-)



"Perhaps one minor bonus to HackerSlide for now is anyone can take the data collected."

Indeed, may I make a suggestion here:

1) Why not make a datadump so people wouldn't need to scrape ~800*24 json files individually?

2) OP ought to load this data into his version so the timeline goes back further

3) It seems quite a few people get the urge to tinker like this with HN, I'm sure pg doesn't mind the scraping, but it strikes me as vastly more efficient if some sort of shared resource was setup and perhaps added to the footer, in the vain of HNsearch, so people don't waste time get crawling data setup.

I'm sure somebody else has a dataset just like yours that goes back further still. :)

Also, thank you for making this and OP for making his. Fun.


1) Why not make a datadump so people wouldn't need to scrape ~80024 json files individually?*

Publicly available JSON files was just a side effect of the implementation. But it's easily to tar and gzip it up, so there's now such a file at http://secretshenanigans.s3.amazonaws.com/hnfrontpages.tar.g... (32MB).


  >>  most similar projects don't seem to stick around very long ...

  >> ... http://hckrnews.com/ is an exception I can recall)
Much improved way for me to quickly skim HN.

I would be sad if it disappeared.




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